Chen Yanbei curled his lips, looked away, and looked sideways at her: "I rarely hear you talk about your past affairs in the Mainland."
Jiang Yao indeed seldom mentions the mainland, because she is not the original owner and has little interest in the original owner's previous life. Besides, the Jiang family is full of top-notch people except for the old man, so there is nothing to mention at all.
But since Chen Yanbei asked, she still replied: "People always have to look forward, and always bring up the past."
"Well, that makes sense." She didn't want to say more, and Chen Yanbei didn't ask any more questions. He put his arm around her shoulders and let her lean against him.
The two of them just looked at the sea quietly, warm and peaceful.
In the evening, the two of them returned to the holiday villa together.
The deal between Huo Chenfeng and Zhou Kun had been concluded a long time ago. In the afternoon, he was bored on the sofa and could only pass the time by reading.
Seeing the two of them entering the door, he put down the book in his hand and sighed: "You two are quite leisurely, and I am left here alone to guard the empty room."
Chen Yanbei raised his eyelids at him and said, "Why, Zhou Kun didn't arrange it for you? I heard that the most famous red light district in Thailand is his territory."
Huo Chenfeng squinted his eyes and sneered: "It's been arranged, but it's a pity that I don't have the luxury to enjoy it."
Zhou Kun sent two masseurs to do Thai massage in the afternoon. They were dressed in hot and cool clothes. Unfortunately, Huo Chenfeng was not interested in this kind of thing and would rather read than indulge in sex.
Like Chen Yanbei, he has mysophobia both emotionally and physically.
"By the way, sister-in-law," Huo Chenfeng reminded Jiang Yao when he saw Jiang Yao going into the kitchen to look for food, "there are cakes and fruits sent by the neighbor next door in the refrigerator. If you are hungry, you can make up for it."
Jiang Yao opened the refrigerator and saw a whole piece of mango layer cake and various fresh seasonal fruits.
In later generations, she loved to eat mango mille-feuille. She quickly took out the cake, cut it into pieces, put it on plates, and then brought it to the living room.
Huo Chenfeng was not sensitive to thanking sweets and waved his hand: "You girls should eat it."
He didn't like to eat, and Jiang Yao didn't force it. She sat down next to Chen Yanbei with a small plate of layer cake.
"Would you like to try it?" She dug out a small piece with a fork and brought it to Chen Yanbei's lips. "This one doesn't have much cream, and it's not too sweet."
Chen Yanbei didn't like sweets at first, but Jiang Yao fed him eagerly with a soft voice, so he opened his lips and ate the small piece.
"You have cream here." Jiang Yao stared at the white spot on the corner of his lips, put down the fork in her hand, and gently stroked the corners of his lips with her thin white fingertips, wiping off the cream for him.
"It's fine now." She curled her lips and looked at him with a smile, then picked up the fork again, took a bite for herself, and then fed Chen Yanbei another bite.
Seeing the intimacy between the two of them as if no one else was around, Huo Chenfeng got goosebumps all over his body. He couldn't help but said, "Hey, I say you two should be careful about the mood of a lonely man like me, okay?"
"This cake is already sweet, and you two are still feeding it without fear of getting tired of it."
He had known Chen Yanbei for so many years. How could someone who didn't even add sugar cubes to his coffee eat such a sweet layer cake? The key point is that he enjoyed eating so much, which really opened his eyes.
Jiang Yao smiled and took back the fork. Considering the feelings of a single person, she stopped feeding Chen Yanbei.
Chen Yanbei glanced at Huo Chenfeng coldly: "The living room is so big, you still have many choices."
The implication is that he is rushing to find someone to torture him.
Huo Chenfeng twitched the corner of his mouth, moved his position, and sat farther away from the two of them.
If you don't see it, you won't look pitiful for being single.
"By the way", Huo Chenfeng suddenly remembered Zhou Kun's invitation in the afternoon, "Zhou Kun also has a beach in Koh Samui that he wants to find someone to cooperate with in developing. Do you want to go and conduct an on-site inspection tomorrow?"
There are too few coastal resources in Xiangjiang and it is not suitable for large-scale development of holiday tourism, but Thailand is very suitable. It is almost surrounded by the sea and has some of the best beach resources in Asia, so it is very suitable for resorts.
"Okay, let's go and have a look." Chen Yanbei nodded. Seeing that Jiang Yao liked this place so much, if she could invest in building a resort here, it would be convenient for her to come here for vacation in the future.
Huo Chenfeng looked at Jiang Yao: "Sister-in-law, are you coming with me?"
Jiang Yao calculated the time. The novel manuscript was almost used up. She had to write more for backup: "You go ahead. I won't go out tomorrow, so I will wait for you at home."
If she doesn't go out, Chen Yanbei can worry less and won't have to send extra people to protect her.
Early the next morning, Zhou Kun's assistant came over to take Chen Yanbei and Huo Chenfeng out to sea and into the island.
Jiang Yao didn't need to go out, so she slept at home until she woke up naturally. Chen Yanbei didn't wake her up before leaving. He left her a note on the bedside, telling her to pay attention to safety and eat on time.
Jiang Yao woke up, looked at the note left for her by Chen Yanbei on the bedside, and sweetly stored the note in the space.
After changing her clothes and washing up, she went downstairs into the kitchen, planning to make a cup of instant noodles to deal with it.
I found a small pot for cooking noodles from the cupboard, cleaned it carefully, poured two bottles of purified water into it, and placed the pot on the induction cooker to heat it.
The kitchen has a huge floor-to-ceiling window, and outside is the blue sea view. Jiang Yao stood in front of the window and admired the scenery while waiting for the pot to boil.
After looking at the scenery for a while, Jiang Yao looked back at the pot on the induction cooker suspiciously. Why was there no boiling movement at all?
She picked up the pot and discovered that the induction cooker had lost power at some point. I looked up and found a small notice in English posted on the wall, saying that the induction cooker was too powerful and would easily trip if used simultaneously with the air conditioner. It also reminded me of the location of the electric switch.
It turned out that the circuit breaker was tripped. After looking at the prompt diagram, Jiang Yao came out of the kitchen, found the location of the circuit breaker, and planned to reset it.
The electric switch is installed in a small utility room next to the kitchen. There is nothing in it, so you can see it at a glance.
Jiang Yao pushed open the door and walked in. She easily found a row of gates on the wall. One of the gates was indeed closed.
She reached out and touched the gate, but suddenly she felt that the entire switch seemed to vibrate.
Thinking she was hallucinating, she put her hand up again, and it was indeed vibrating, and it seemed that it was not the electric switch that was vibrating, but the vibration from the wall with the electric switch embedded in it. It was slow and weak, once and for all. If she hadn't deliberately approached the wall, it wouldn't have happened at all. Will feel it.
The wall was shaking, but this was a vacation villa, and there was no one else in the villa except her. How could there be such a sound?
She reached out and knocked on the wall out of nowhere.
The wall is actually hollow!
And she knocked back twice, and the vibrations on the other side of the wall suddenly stopped for a moment, and the next second turned into vibrations with a faster rhythm, as if in response to her.
After she stopped knocking, the response from the other side of the wall became more urgent.
Could it be that there is someone behind this wall?
It was so weird, Jiang Yao's heart beat suddenly faster. Thinking of the Thai horror movie she had watched before, a chill instantly rose up her back.
She had better turn on the switch quickly and leave the room!
In a panic, she raised her hand and pushed the switch upward.
"Click——"
The wall suddenly moved to the side, and a row of stone steps descending appeared in front of them. On the stone steps, there was a man in black lying on his back!
The man's disheveled face blended completely into his black clothes, and his appearance was almost indistinguishable. His bony fingers tightly held a stainless steel spoon, and the knocking sound was precisely because he was using the spoon to dig into the wall.
"Help me." When the man heard the noise, he slowly raised his head and asked for help weakly in English. When he saw Jiang Yao clearly, a glimmer of hope burst into his eyes.
Jiang Yao was so frightened that she froze on the spot. She never expected that she had just pushed the wrong switch in a hurry, and it turned out to be the switch that turned on this wall.
No, curiosity killed the cat. Jiang Yao's first reaction was to run away.
"Help me, please." As if sensing Jiang Yao's resistance, the man weakly begged again.
"Ahem...I, I am an architect...I was imprisoned here when I was building this resort...Ahem..."
"Please……"
Jiang Yao later worked in a real estate consulting company and often dealt with architects, who were more or less peers.
Forget it, she couldn't bear it and turned back.
However, she is not defenseless. There is also a batch of weapons secretly kept in the space to protect herself at any time. It was also because of this reliance that she dared to take risks.
Jiang Yao helped the man up and then restored the wall.
She heard the man's breath was very weak just now, and thought he was seriously injured. Only now did she realize that there were no wounds on the man's body, it was just caused by hunger.
"Wait a minute, I'll find you something to eat first."
She opened the locker, took out two Snickers bars and an energy drink from the space under the cover of the locker, tore off the packaging and gave it to the man: "Here you go."
"Thank...thank you." The man swallowed, raised his head and took a gulp of water, then took two firm bites of the Snickers bar.
He hasn't eaten normal food for more than a month, relying on a few cans in the basement to survive.
After filling his stomach, he regained some strength. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve, looked at Jiang Yao, and said in English: "Are you a tourist here? There are radioactive minerals underneath this place, which are radiating to the human body and are not suitable. It’s vacation, please leave now!”
Jiang Yao has been to Koh Samui in later generations and has never heard of such a thing: "But why did I hear that the government will continue to develop the second and third phases of the resort here."
Generally, the government will have a professional geological survey team to conduct land exploration before granting a construction permit. Radioactive materials are easily detected. If this is the case, construction will not be allowed.
Hearing this, the man's eyes showed a bit of despair: "Oh, we can't stop them after all."
"What do you mean?" Jiang Yao intuitively felt that there must be a story behind this resort.
The man sighed: "I am the architectural designer of this resort project. Before the construction, I did not know that there were problems with the geology here. It was not until halfway through the project that two workers fainted and were sent to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed them with... It’s acute leukemia.”
"I thought it was a bit strange, so I contacted a doctor friend who studies this disease. My friend suspected that these two people were exposed to some radioactive material that caused the sudden illness."
"At this moment, three more workers developed the same illness, which completely verified my friend's suspicion. I took a radioactive material detector to the construction site to conduct a secret survey, and only then discovered that the radiation value here completely exceeded the standard. Either There are radioactive minerals in the ground, or it may have been a remnant of some military research. In short, it is not suitable for building any buildings.”
"I immediately contacted the construction company and asked them to stop the work immediately. Unexpectedly, the foreman was afraid that he would not receive funds for the half-built house, so he planned to hide the matter, continue to build the house, and then take the money and leave. I then found the developer The reaction was that the result was still the same. They were afraid that they would not be able to recoup their investment, so they chose to hide it.”
"What's even more ridiculous is that they were afraid that I would leak the news and wanted to kill me to silence me. Fortunately, I put all the evidence in a safe place in advance. They didn't dare to kill me, so they changed it to house arrest and locked me up here regularly. Drop off two boxes of cans to make sure I don’t starve to death.”
"But I know that privately they must be looking for where I hide evidence."
It turns out that there is such a hidden secret here, but Jiang Yao was still shocked when she heard that there was radioactive material. Couldn't she have been radiated too?
The man seemed to understand her thoughts and explained: "Don't worry, this villa area is safe. The people who can buy this villa are reputable people. After the developer knew that there was radiation, he changed the location of the villa area. Moved to a safe area away from the hotel.”
Jiang Yao felt relieved after hearing his words.
